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Is it Conceivable to Go Back to ICE After Driving a Tesla?

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Unfortunately, sillyd, the frustrating thing is the gasoline definitely will go bad, even if you might be able to snag non-ethanol-containing gasoline (interestingly enough, we can't get gas with ethanol in it in AK), if you let it sit, even in the cool underground, for more than about a month.

I have no qualms in Alaska's climate about letting diesel, aka fuel oil #2, aka heating oil #2, sit for as long as about a year, and propane will last a lifetime. But gasoline...if you absolutely have to store it you can add stabilizer, but that's mighty expensive. The neatest thing to be able to accomplish, if you're trying to stave off the impending apocalypse, would be were you able to foist off - somewhere - the remnant of a 500-gallon tank at the end of each month and then fill it with the fresh stuff. Lather, rinse, repeat. I've absolutely no idea where to suggest you could continuously get rid of a couple of hundred (???) gallons of month-old gas every thirty days, although perhaps you do.

PS: I do store gasoline: I put a couple of hundred gallons in sealed 55-gallon barrels and make use of them over the course of about half a year. The vapors have no way of leaving the fluid and, since there's no ethanol, it doesn't "separate" (and the hygroscopic ethanol can't attract water moisture). But your u/g tank isn't sealed, unfortunately.


PPS: 'Course, if the apocalypse comes and you've those 500 gallons, you'll be good only until you've finished that off...and then the zombies will finish you off anyway, so you're still sunk.

Thanks for the advice - it's what I feared. The filling station came with the house so I wasn't pursuing an anti-apocalypse setup on purpose. The tank has served me well for nearly all fill-ups for several years, but that was with all ICE cars where I would need to refill the tank about every four months (yes 1500 gal/yr, but my ICE cars all run from 10 - 15 mpg). Since most of the miles now go on the Tesla, the tank hasn't been filled for about eight months and is still part full. I think I'm going to discontinue its use entirely before I fill an ICE car with bad gasoline and damage the engine. Then the irony will be that thanks to the Tesla I will be traveling to gas stations more than I have in years!